Posted on August 12, 2018
Dr Vinet Coetzee’s main research objective is to create workable health solutions for Africa that can be used in both hospitals and rural areas. Because access to adequate health facilities is often limited in Africa, she knows her approach has to be different. Using her expertise in...
Posted on August 10, 2018
University of Pretoria researchers are helping save the South African pine industry from the destructive Sirex wasp, through a form of biological control. As part of the South African Sirex Control Programme, they are distributing millions of microscopic worms called nematodes to pine...
Posted on August 01, 2018
Prof Nthabiseng Audrey Ogude, Dean of the University of Pretoria’s, Mamelodi Campus, was recently appointed Vice-President of the Pan African University Council (PAU). The PAU was established by the African Union Council (AUC) as an intra-African human resource development initiative to...
Posted on July 31, 2018
The University of Pretoria (UP) is one of three South African universities taking a novel approach to analysing big data, building capacity and research expertise ahead of the deluge of data expected to come streaming in through new telescopes like the South African Radio Astronomy...
Posted on July 30, 2018
A major challenge in cancer research is to find agents that target cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells alone and unharmed. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments can have many undesirable side effects because they damage healthy cells as well.
Posted on July 20, 2018
Research led by scientists at the University of Pretoria (UP) has shed light on an evolutionary arms race with a twist. This research, conducted by Morgan J. Martin, a PhD student from UP has found that the small Heaviside’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii) selectively switch between...
Posted on July 19, 2018
A study by a University of Pretoria researcher into the ablution habits of white rhinos in the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, has revealed that these animals use their place of defecation to communicate with each other and take decisions that can affect their ecology.
Posted on July 17, 2018
Prof Roger Deane from the Department of Physics represented UP at the launch of the MeerKAT radio telescope, inaugurated by Deputy President David Mabuza in the Northern Cape. Built and operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), the MeerKAT comprises 64 radio dishes, each...
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